And whose fault is this? Hidden Palace is the one to blame! and their lazy community are cowardly to help. Their lack of support with poor preservation groups is no wonder why Forest discontinued because they couldn't gain enough funds, knowing just how outrageously overpriced prototypes can be especially first party early versions that are nearly impossible to find unless you invade a game company's server or learn how to look in Yahoo Japan instead of ebay, idiots.
The end of Forest mark a terrible sign that prototype preservation is slowing coming to an end because Hidden Palace are too busy fooling around with Playstation and Xbox because they are badly overrated and too popular nowadays, also they are trying to avoid first party and 2nd party prototypes from Nintendo as the company was badly known for being notorious against gaming communities and preservation groups in the past few years.
Prototype preservation is going to rot to the ground because you cheapskates couldn't pay them enough to keep their hobby going, even if they already given us a lot of prototypes in the past but most of what was found was rather pointless so far as all we get were a bunch of late boring builds of games already releaesd! Where the heck is Project Dream, 12 Tales, Kirby Air Ride 64, Earthbound 64, Space Ace for Nes, and those 2 unknown rpg game boy advance games when we need them? Even Panel De Pon 64 is still gone after it was sold off by a careless selfish youtuber!
More prototype games will be lost forever because most of you just sitting out there doing NOTHING lmao. Don't expect me to be the only one doing all the damn work for all of you.
Just do something and go out there to find more lost games so we can keep preservation going! Screw HP and Forest, they are unreliable and untrustworthy.

you got dmca'd by nintendo didnt u?

I know Hidden Palace, Hard4Games, and even NesWorld still exist but they are hardly been active lately especially this year. This is why we should all consider making our own preservation groups to step up as FOI's next successor. Prototype preservation should not deserve to end like this. I'll be making a new one soon.
FOI did not even do a good job in the past few years and only now by the end of their day we would get better looking prototypes when they were about to go is like a horrible tease from god or something that plan all this.
Blame the video game industry and fellow collectors for hoarding away prototype games from being accessible to the public.

Don't listen to him. Hes just mad because the prototype was finally out without his permission or knowledge because Hopkins is a SCROOGE like all other hoarders from big money milker companies like EA, Rare, Sega, ect. Hopkins know nothing about preservation. hes only good at blaming and accusing others when he should just give me the demo instead and we wouldnt have to take this far do we?
Please avoid speaking or listening to Hopkins hes only brainwashing you with his horrible lies. Just report him to EA and make him go to jail because he deserves that better than harassing me around here!
Don is a lying criminal only good at bullying others and NOT sharing his prototypes. its not my fault that any Sims 1 betas would take forever to preserve because Don obviously is hoarding all of it for himself
Preservation is DEAD because all you dumb idiots accusing me with all your sick insults! burn in hell all of you who killed preservation with prototype gaming!

That's really missing the point. If the project were to be handed out to someone else, there's the chance that it would've drifted away from its original vision, possibly becoming a hostile echo chamber with enough of the wrong hands exchanging each other. Plus, there's already other ongoing projects out there that set out to do what FOI was doing, meaning they didn't need to give the reins to another individual.

PhilNewArchive2022 Fuck you

you guys were real OGs in the preservationist scene. i don really see why you guys have to disband the group instead of just slowing it down though. but im sure you all have your reasons. thanks for all you guysve done
also PhilNewArchive2023 you should leap off of the nearest tall object and try to land on your skull i think it would really make everyone else happy

It's a shame these things happen, but nothing lasts forever. That said, you've done amazing work and I wish you nothing but the best in your future endeavors, whatever they are. I only wish I could give the selfish, negative reviews here a one star review. It's fine to be disappointed, but what does pitching a fit do? If they want services like yours to go on, they need to contribute, or start doing the work themselves.
Again, thank you for your time and effort and bravo!

Thanks for all you've done !

May your efforts be with us and preserved til the end of the internet.

One of the few game preservationists who actually deliver. People always glorifying redump or no intro even though the only thing they preserve is hash number. Even then, some of them still gatekeeped by them. This scene will never be the same without you guys but i hope some other group will take the mantle.

video game preservation won't be the same without you

One of the best preservationists ever

Thanks for everything. Welcome to the kill scren.

I'm guessing all of the items are on the account that posted this, so here: https://archive.org/details/@rvt-r

Where are the files? I see a bunch are missing. There are only like 6 entries. I just found your website the other day and now you're gone.

You were an invaluable resource to the community as a whole, and your former web presence will leave a yawning, heart break shaped hole where the site once was.
Good luck on your future endeavors, and know you will be missed.

I want to thank you for releasing Dinosaur Planet by Rare for Nintendo 64. I mean it and thank you so much.

Really sad to see the site come to an end, like many others I wish I could see the site keep going, but of course costs and trying to run such a site with 3 people… well, all good things come to an end.
Baysam! Please direct us to your website or other public contributions to the community that I’m sure you offer, based on your brief review and short-tempered criticism of others. I’m sure the complexity of your own preservation website will back up your accusations of laziness towards FoI staff. We are eager to see what you’ve done with your life.

Rest in piece, you'll be missed. Raise a glass to the best preservation project.

Pretty disappointing to see one of the few great videogame preservation projects cease due to what I can only gather as laziness on the parts of the people who ran it. Really failing to understand why the torch could not have been passed on in some way to other people who are trustworthy/not as lazy and who actually give a damn about the future of preservation.

It's been a wild ride and unfortunate to see the preservation group end so sudden. You've brought us amazing releases no other group would do and shown us obscurer releases that would otherwise go unnoticed. Hopefully someone will be there to close that gap again.
Good luck with the rest of life and with other projects!

thank you toge and co for the years of hard work and good times!! <3

Thanks FoI for all the hard work preserving video game history. You will be sorely missed. I wish you all the best in your futures endeavors.

Your impact on the community will not be forgotten.
FOI will live on as one of the best preservation groups!

Thank you for all your hard work!! We will miss you.

Thank you for your work!

Thank you for everything you guys have done! You will be missed D:
o7

Thanks for everything!!!

It was good...

Thank for everything you did for preservation.
Your impact on the community can't be put into words.

Thanks for all your hard work over the years, it has always been a pleasure to see what you guys would come out with.

You've done well, Forest of Illusion. You dropped this, Kings.

Rest easy man you and and team did good